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Talking head generation creates lifelike avatars from static portraits for virtual communication and content creation. However, current models do not yet convey the feeling of truly interactive communication, often generating one-way…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Taekyung Ki , Sangwon Jang , Jaehyeong Jo , Jaehong Yoon , Sung Ju Hwang

Reconstructing photo-realistic and topology-aware animatable human avatars from monocular videos remains challenging in computer vision and graphics. Recently, methods using 3D Gaussians to represent the human body have emerged, offering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Haoyu Zhao , Chen Yang , Hao Wang , Xingyue Zhao , Wei Shen

Learning 3D head priors from large 2D image collections is an important step towards high-quality 3D-aware human modeling. A core requirement is an efficient architecture that scales well to large-scale datasets and large image resolutions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Tobias Kirschstein , Simon Giebenhain , Jiapeng Tang , Markos Georgopoulos , Matthias Nießner

While there has been significant progress in the field of 3D avatar creation from visual observations, modeling physically plausible dynamics of humans with loose garments remains a challenging problem. Although a few existing works address…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Changmin Lee , Jihyun Lee , Tae-Kyun Kim

Text-to-3D, known for its efficient generation methods and expansive creative potential, has garnered significant attention in the AIGC domain. However, the pixel-wise rendering of NeRF and its ray marching light sampling constrain the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xinhai Li , Huaibin Wang , Kuo-Kun Tseng

Traditionally, creating photo-realistic 3D head avatars requires a studio-level multi-view capture setup and expensive optimization during test-time, limiting the use of digital human doubles to the VFX industry or offline renderings. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tobias Kirschstein , Javier Romero , Artem Sevastopolsky , Matthias Nießner , Shunsuke Saito

Recent advances in 3D avatar generation have gained significant attentions. These breakthroughs aim to produce more realistic animatable avatars, narrowing the gap between virtual and real-world experiences. Most of existing works employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mingyuan Zhou , Rakib Hyder , Ziwei Xuan , Guojun Qi

Gaussian Splatting has become the method of choice for 3D reconstruction and real-time rendering of captured real scenes. However, fine appearance details need to be represented as a large number of small Gaussian primitives, which can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Panagiotis Papantonakis , Georgios Kopanas , Fredo Durand , George Drettakis

Recently, text-to-image generation has exhibited remarkable advancements, with the ability to produce visually impressive results. In contrast, text-to-3D generation has not yet reached a comparable level of quality. Existing methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Yukang Cao , Yan-Pei Cao , Kai Han , Ying Shan , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Text-to-3D generation has shown promising results, yet common challenges such as the Multi-face Janus problem and extended generation time for high-quality assets. In this paper, we address these issues by introducing a novel three-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Trapoom Ukarapol , Kevin Pruvost

Recent advancements in Generalizable Gaussian Splatting have enabled robust 3D reconstruction from sparse input views by utilizing feed-forward Gaussian Splatting models, achieving superior cross-scene generalization. However, while many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Zhicong Wu , Hongbin Xu , Gang Xu , Ping Nie , Zhixin Yan , Jinkai Zheng , Liangqiong Qu , Ming Li , Liqiang Nie

Realistic, high-fidelity 3D facial animations are crucial for expressive avatar systems in human-computer interaction and accessibility. Although prior methods show promising quality, their reliance on the mesh domain limits their ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Alexandre Symeonidis-Herzig , Özge Mercanoğlu Sincan , Richard Bowden

3D Gaussian representations have emerged as a powerful paradigm for digital head modeling, achieving photorealistic quality with real-time rendering. However, intuitive and interactive creation or editing of 3D Gaussian head models remains…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Bo Li , Jiahao Kang , Yubo Ma , Feng-Lin Liu , Bin Liu , Fang-Lue Zhang , Lin Gao

Current text-to-avatar methods often rely on implicit representations (e.g., NeRF, SDF, and DMTet), leading to 3D content that artists cannot easily edit and animate in graphics software. This paper introduces a novel framework for…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Duotun Wang , Hengyu Meng , Zeyu Cai , Zhijing Shao , Qianxi Liu , Lin Wang , Mingming Fan , Xiaohang Zhan , Zeyu Wang

The recent advancements in image-text diffusion models have stimulated research interest in large-scale 3D generative models. Nevertheless, the limited availability of diverse 3D resources presents significant challenges to learning. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Chi Zhang , Yiwen Chen , Yijun Fu , Zhenglin Zhou , Gang YU , Billzb Wang , Bin Fu , Tao Chen , Guosheng Lin , Chunhua Shen

Visual effects (VFX) are key to immersion in modern films, games, and AR/VR. Creating 3D effects requires specialized expertise and training in 3D animation software and can be time consuming. Generative solutions typically rely on…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Mert Kiray , Paul Uhlenbruck , Nassir Navab , Benjamin Busam

The manipulation of latent space has recently become an interesting topic in the field of generative models. Recent research shows that latent directions can be used to manipulate images towards certain attributes. However, controlling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Zehranaz Canfes , M. Furkan Atasoy , Alara Dirik , Pinar Yanardag

Significant progress has been made for speech-driven 3D face animation, but most works focus on learning the motion of mesh/geometry, ignoring the impact of dynamic texture. In this work, we reveal that dynamic texture plays a key role in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Xuanchen Li , Jianyu Wang , Yuhao Cheng , Yikun Zeng , Xingyu Ren , Wenhan Zhu , Weiming Zhao , Yichao Yan

Recent developments in 3D reconstruction and neural rendering have significantly propelled the capabilities of photo-realistic 3D scene rendering across various academic and industrial fields. The 3D Gaussian Splatting technique, alongside…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Zexu Huang , Min Xu , Stuart Perry

Talking head synthesis has emerged as a prominent research topic in computer graphics and multimedia, yet most existing methods often struggle to strike a balance between generation quality and computational efficiency, particularly under…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Shuai Shen , Wanhua Li , Yunpeng Zhang , Yap-Peng Tan , Jiwen Lu